What is Positive Psychology?
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of what makes life worth living and how to cultivate the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.
The evidence-based field is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, find what is best within themselves, and enhance their experiences of love, work, and play.
It is a call for psychological science and practice to be as concerned with solutions and strengths as with weakness; as interested in building the best things in life as in repairing the worst.
Extensive studies have identified five essential components of sustained well-being. Positive Psychology is rich with tools for creating/enhancing each of them.
The aspects of a life well-lived are:
- Positive Emotions
- Engagement (flow/ samadhi)
- Relationships
- Meaning
- Accomplishments.
Well, look no further. For the past 25 years, I’ve been applying the most effective tools from Positive Psychology, Yoga Therapy, Life Coaching and Meridian Tapping to help individuals and couples clarify their goals, reduce suffering, and create the lives of their dreams. The goal of a coaching relationship is to help individuals clarify, tap into, and actualise their deepest vision of who they are. A coach acts as a facilitator for a client’s full flowering as a person — a Gardener of the Spirit. The key difference between coaching and psychotherapy has more to do with mindset than method. While both coaching and therapy can help people make major life changes, coaching liberates therapy from a medical, pathology-based approach and focuses wholly on human strengths, positive passions and the nurturance of untapped possibilities. Positive Yoga Coaching offers a dynamic, holistic, solution-focused route to a happier, healthier life. Relationship Coaching combines Yoga’s timeless principles and Positive Psychology’s evidence based tools for experiencing more intimacy, satisfaction and Joy in all our relationships.
